Improved forge



TAYLOR & HOLMES.

Forge.

. PatgntefiApri l 25, 1865..

Inventors:

Witnesses: M

PETERS, Fholn-Lllhognpheu Washinghm. DJ;

CHARLES N. TAYLOR, OF UPTON, AND ELIJAH J. HOLMES, OF DEDHAM,

PATENT OFFICE.

MASSAGE USETTS.

' IMPROVED FORGE.

Specification fori'ning part of Letters Patent No. 47367, dated April 25, 1865.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CHARLES N. TAYLOR, of Upton, in the county of \Vorcester and State of Massachusetts, and ELIJAH J. HoLMEs, o1 Dedham, in the county of Norfolk and State aforesaid, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Forges, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a view of a forge with our improvements applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line x w of Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4 represent removable plates of diiferent form to that shown in place in Fig. 1.

In the use of forges of the ordinary construction much time is lost in distributing the fuel properly around the piece of metal tobe heated, and where the article is large and of irregular shape it is impossible to confine the draft to that portion only of the fuel which surrounds it, and a waste of fuel is thereby unavoidably occasioned.

To obviate these objections is the purpose of our invention, which consists in a forge provided with a large extent oftgrate-surface, which may be partially covered by plates of various forms and dimensions, so as to leave only a portion of the grate-surface exposed, which corresponds nearly to the form and size of the article to be heated, by which means We are enabled to concentrate the blast directly under it, and thus effect a considerable.

their ends resting on a shoulder, a, formed around the inside of the forge near its top. B (3 D are metal plates, made to fit into the top of the forge and rest upon the grate-bars I), a portion of each plate being cut out so as g to expose a portion of the grate-surface corresponding in form and of greater extent than that covered by the article to be heated.

'VVhen a locomotive-tire is to be forged, a

plate, B, is put on the grate-surface b, and the annular space 01, of a little. greater width than the thickness of the tire, is filled with coal or other suitable fuel, which on being ignited.

clay, so as to prevent the escape of air at'the joints.

By the application of the removable plates,

as described above, we are enabled to heat a i I piece of metal with greater ease and dispatch than has heretofore been attained, and at the same time effect a great saving of fuel.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is-

The improved forge herein described, with its removable plates for the purpose of adaptin g it to the size and shape of the article to be heated.

CHARLES N. TAYLOR. ELIJAI-I J. HOLMES. Witnesses:

P. E. TESGHEMAOHER, N. W. STEARNS. 

